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Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 681 | Stephen,
Good morning. You will be OK. Treatment - surgery, radiation, chemo or whatever combo is definitly hard, possibly dangerous and involves much discomfort. Not having the proper treatment is definitly dangerous.
Have someone pick up the current (August) Reader's Digest for you to read when you are up to it. The article on page 150, "The Farther Shore," is by a man with a young child. The author has stage IV cancer of the tongue.
SCC stage II Partial mandibulectomy w. neck dissection- July 2005. Renal cancer w. partial nephrectomy-Jan 2004. Breast cancer discovered in routine mammogram. Successful lumpectomy, sentinal nodes clear, RT only-2008 Reconstruction of mandible w fibula free flap-Jan 09. TORS removal of begnin pappiloma from esophagus-2010. Masectomy,rt breast 2013.
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